Unit 2 Flashcards
Upmarket
Upmarket goods and products are of very high quality and intended to be bought by people who are quite rich
Posh
Classy, fashionable and usually expensive.
To cut down
-to limit
-to do or use less of something:
I’m trying to cut down on caffeine.
To send around
-To circulate
“Please, send around this memo so that everybody knows about the proposed changes”
To hang on
To wait a minute
To try out
To test or experiment something
To turn out
To prove to be the case
“You told me he was mena but he turned out to be quite nice.”
To give up
To stop or quit something
To eat up
to consume the whole portion
“Eat up your spinach, Ana!”
To run out of
There’s no more left
To pick up
to eat without appetite, barely eat.
“She was so tired she was picking at the food on her plate.”
This is not my cup of tea
That is something you don´t like doing or you’re not good at doing it.
To chicken out of something
to be a coward and avoid doing something
To have egg on your face
To be embarressed or feel stupid because you did something
to the bitter end
to continue doing something to the end, even though the situation is difficult or unpleasent.
to spoon-feed someone
to give somebody assistance, to help them.
to eat your heart out
to suffer in silence, to be very sad
To spill the beans
Give away a secret or a surprise
You can’t have your cake and eat it
two good things are not possible at the same time,
you can’t have everything you want
Gulp down
to eat very quickly
platter
a large plate used for serving food
Quench
to drink liquid so that you stop being thirsty:
When it’s hot, it’s best to quench your thirst with water.
Fuming
To be really angry
Wind someone up the wrong way
get someone mad
Feeling run-down
tired and not healthy, especially because of working too much:
To set out
to start a journey
“Get ready, we’re seeting out in two minutes.”
To sort out
to find a solution, to solve a problem
To end up
to become finally, to find yourself in a situation
To look something up
to search , to check something
To run into
to find someone or experience something you didin’t expect.
To have one for the road
to eat or drink your last drink before you leave a place
To be at a crossroads
a situation when you have to make a difficult decision
Travel broadens the mind
the more we visit other countries, the more open we become
to share common ground
to have similar opinions or experiences as someone else.
Hope your paths cross again
you hope to meet someone again
To be taken for a ride
to cheat or to swindle somedoby
dead end
no proggress or improvement can be made
off the beaten track
places that are not often visited
Thrilled to bits
to be really happy about something
Subsidise
to help someone financially
Hard on the pocket
when you pay a lot for something
Make amends
-to do something good to show that you are sorry about something you have done:
She tried to make amends by inviting him out to dinner.
Serviettes
napkins
Be taken in by something
To be fooled, swindled, cheated, or beguiled (by someone or something).
grater
ralador
Mince
to grind something
sieve
peneira
strainer
cuador
to say something diplomatically
say it politely and without insulting anyone
to rose to uncomfortable levels
when other people’s conversation began to escalate and it became uncomfortable
patronising
speaking to someone as if you are inferior
Beat about the bush
To speak vaguely or euphemistically so as to avoid talking directly about an unpleasant or sensitive topic.
Foreseeable future
A foreseeable event or situation is one that can be known about or guessed before it happens.
as far into the future as you can imagine or plan for:
I’ll be living here for the foreseeable future.
Poke
to push a finger or other pointed object quickly into someone or something:
